Emma Galloway Stephens
@emmagstephens.bsky.social
Poet. Professor. Appalachian. Southern. Anglican.
Poems in The Windhover, Ekstasis Mag, Thimble Lit Mag, Door is a Jar, Red Branch Review, Clayjar Review, The Christian Century and more--with work upcoming in The MacGuffin and J Journal.
Poems in The Windhover, Ekstasis Mag, Thimble Lit Mag, Door is a Jar, Red Branch Review, Clayjar Review, The Christian Century and more--with work upcoming in The MacGuffin and J Journal.
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Regular reminder that the majority of the people who dreamed up the stories you love are, like, BROKE broke, and that most of the money spent on their work was given to Some Guy™️ instead.
December 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Regular reminder that the majority of the people who dreamed up the stories you love are, like, BROKE broke, and that most of the money spent on their work was given to Some Guy™️ instead.
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“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there
December 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there
There's some good in this world, Charlie Brown. And it's worth fighting for.
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Charlie Brown.
What are they gonna say about him? What are they gonna say? That he was a kind man? That he was a wise man, Charlie Brown?
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
There's some good in this world, Charlie Brown. And it's worth fighting for.
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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did you know the Mountain Goats have a new album out today and you can buy it or stream it and dance to it in your living room or while driving or on the subway and it's a whole vibe? well now you know that 30tgrs.ffm.to/ttfafpb
The Mountain Goats - Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan
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November 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
did you know the Mountain Goats have a new album out today and you can buy it or stream it and dance to it in your living room or while driving or on the subway and it's a whole vibe? well now you know that 30tgrs.ffm.to/ttfafpb
While we're all out here hollering good news, I have not one, but TWO books coming out next year.
November 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
While we're all out here hollering good news, I have not one, but TWO books coming out next year.
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If you want to push back against tech's encroachment into every corner of our lives, you have to read books. They're eager to create a future in which most people are illiterate and hooked on slop, a world without imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.
October 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If you want to push back against tech's encroachment into every corner of our lives, you have to read books. They're eager to create a future in which most people are illiterate and hooked on slop, a world without imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.
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did one of these for poets a while ago
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
did one of these for poets a while ago
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people should subscribe to literary magazines
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
people should subscribe to literary magazines
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If you're a writer in the South with a funny, irreverent novel, this is the time to send it to me. I would love to read something like that right now.
Serious books bum us out, fun books feel like they're not addressing THE TIMES. Getting something that's both is impossible. Writers are cranking out novels to please their agents, and agents are sending them unedited, and no one is answering anyone's emails because we're really, really tired.
October 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
If you're a writer in the South with a funny, irreverent novel, this is the time to send it to me. I would love to read something like that right now.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Prayers for Dolly. Saint of the Hills.
dolly parton is wearing a wig and smiling in a close up of her face .
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October 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Prayers for Dolly. Saint of the Hills.
Weekends need to be 3 days long.
October 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Weekends need to be 3 days long.
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I need a Portlandia sketch about the Portland occupation
October 3, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I need a Portlandia sketch about the Portland occupation
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Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.
October 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.
I strongly recommend that y'all read literary fiction and poetry from indie presses. These two books from @driftwoodpress.bsky.social are miraculous.
September 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I strongly recommend that y'all read literary fiction and poetry from indie presses. These two books from @driftwoodpress.bsky.social are miraculous.
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The thing about being neurodivergent is that I Like It. What I don’t like is that the world imposes numerous taxes on me for being like this.
I don’t view it as a Me problem.
I don’t view it as a Me problem.
September 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The thing about being neurodivergent is that I Like It. What I don’t like is that the world imposes numerous taxes on me for being like this.
I don’t view it as a Me problem.
I don’t view it as a Me problem.
I finally received a rejection letter from The New Yorker for the poem I sent them in June, 2023.
September 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I finally received a rejection letter from The New Yorker for the poem I sent them in June, 2023.
First day back in the classroom. I'm not emotionally ready.
August 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
First day back in the classroom. I'm not emotionally ready.
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"Sorry, I can't, I'm writing a villanelle"
August 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"Sorry, I can't, I'm writing a villanelle"
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People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.
August 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.
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Quick everybody cast their phones into the fires of Mount Doom
August 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Quick everybody cast their phones into the fires of Mount Doom